"This would in fact be easier to explain if you'd tried to pick up the material on ilanism while it was being taught."

"You're coming at this from the wrong angle.  You have no idea what an ilani can deduce.  That thing Keltham does, that you should've been warned about by Asmodia, where you say something that sounds ordinary and innocent to you, and Keltham makes some far-reaching deduction using Laws you don't understand?"

"Not only can I do it too, now, but I realized that I'd been doing a lot of it already.  Asmodeans just train themselves not to know they're doing it, which is how I was able to know what I did, without taking a lot of extra time to think."

"For example.  Among the military information you think I don't have - I'd ask how you think you even know what information I have, but you'd have to be an ilani to realize why 'how do I even know that' is an important question to ask - is a conversation between Sevar and the Queen of Cheliax, back when the Queen and the Most High were taking tea with the rest of us, a couple of days after Keltham made his hiring decisions.  Asmodia asked if she could have female wizard students from outside Cheliax to examine, kidnapped ones.  Sevar mentioned that Felandriel Morgethai's university was the reason we don't own Andoran, and that the Magesterium in Absalom is the reason nobody's ever conquered it."

"You aren't allowed to think about what that implies about the relative military strength of Cheliax."

"Or rather, you're not allowed to think of it in words.  A part of yourself that you can't see, but an ilani can, reads ahead to what the results would be if you did think about it, and it warns off the part of yourself exposed to Detect Thoughts from thinking anything that sounds disloyal.  But that part of you has to know what you would deduce to warn you off from that."

"If I say, now, that all the students at Morgethai's university and Absolom's Magesterium will have a far easier time of picking up everything Keltham's trying to teach, because they're not afraid of seeing truths like that, some part of you is flinching right now.  And for that part of yourself to know to flinch, it must already know what you'd deduce if you let yourself look."

"That's why I was able to know immediately what the real truth of the matter was, as soon as I stopped not looking there.  My mind had already calculated it."

"And now that I've said that much to you, you will, inevitably, start to see it yourself at some point, which is why they picked a disposable Security officer for this interview instead of putting Abarco on it.  You're definitely going to need to flee Cheliax at some point.  That part is inevitable.  Part of you already knows that, which is why you can feel yourself flinching away from thinking of it right now."

"This would in fact be easier to explain if you'd tried to pick up the material on ilanism while it was being taught."

"You're coming at this from the wrong angle.  You have no idea what an ilani can deduce.  That thing Keltham does, that you should've been warned about by Asmodia, where you say something that sounds ordinary and innocent to you, and Keltham makes some far-reaching deduction using Laws you don't understand?"

"Not only can I do it too, now, but I realized that I'd been doing a lot of it already.  Asmodeans just train themselves not to know they're doing it, which is how I was able to know what I knew right away, without taking a lot of extra time to think."

"For example.  Among the military information you think I don't have - I'd ask how you think you even know what information I have, but you'd have to be an ilani to realize why 'how do I even know that' is an important question to ask - is a conversation between Sevar and the Queen of Cheliax, back when the Queen and the Most High were taking tea with the rest of us, a couple of days after Keltham made his hiring decisions.  Asmodia asked if she could have female wizard students from outside Cheliax to examine, kidnapped ones.  Sevar mentioned that Felandriel Morgethai's university was the reason we don't own Andoran, and that the Magesterium in Absalom is the reason nobody's ever conquered it."

"You aren't allowed to think about what that implies about the relative military strength of Cheliax."

"Or rather, you're not allowed to think of it in words.  A part of yourself that you can't see, but an ilani can, reads ahead to what the results would be if you did think about it, and it warns off the part of yourself exposed to Detect Thoughts from thinking anything that sounds disloyal.  But that part of you has to know what you would deduce to warn you off from that."

"If I say, now, that all the students at Morgethai's university and Absolom's Magesterium will have a far easier time of picking up everything Keltham's trying to teach, because they're not afraid of seeing truths like that, some part of you is flinching right now.  And for that part of yourself to know to flinch, it must already know what you'd deduce if you let yourself look."

"That's why I was able to know immediately what the real truth of the matter was, as soon as I stopped not looking there.  My mind had already calculated it."

"And now that I've said that much to you, you will, inevitably, start to see it yourself at some point, which is why they picked a disposable Security officer for this interview instead of putting Abarco on it.  You're definitely going to need to flee Cheliax at some point.  That part is inevitable.  Part of you already knows that, which is why you can feel yourself flinching away from thinking of it right now."

"This would in fact be easier to explain if you'd tried to pick up the material on ilanism while it was being taught."

"You're coming at this from the wrong angle.  You have no idea what an ilani can deduce.  That thing Keltham does, that you should've been warned about by Asmodia, where you say something that sounds ordinary and innocent to you, and Keltham makes some far-reaching deduction using Laws you don't understand?"

"Not only can I do it too, now, but I realized that I'd been doing a lot of it already.  Asmodeans just train themselves not to know they're doing it, which is how I was able to know what I knew right away, without taking a lot of extra time to think."

"For example.  Among the military information you think I don't have - I'd ask how you think you even know what information I have, but you'd have to be an ilani to realize why 'how do I even know that' is an important question - is a conversation between Sevar and the Queen of Cheliax, back when the Queen and the Most High were taking tea with the rest of us, a couple of days after Keltham made his hiring decisions.  Asmodia asked if she could have female wizard students from outside Cheliax to examine, kidnapped ones.  Sevar mentioned that Felandriel Morgethai's university was the reason we don't own Andoran, and that the Magesterium in Absalom is the reason nobody's ever conquered it."

"You aren't allowed to think about what that implies about the relative military strength of Cheliax."

"Or rather, you're not allowed to think of it in words.  A part of yourself that you can't see, but an ilani can, reads ahead to what the results would be if you did think about it, and it warns off the part of yourself exposed to Detect Thoughts from thinking anything that sounds disloyal.  But that part of you has to know what you would deduce to warn you off from that."

"If I say, now, that all the students at Morgethai's university and Absolom's Magesterium will have a far easier time of picking up everything Keltham's trying to teach, because they're not afraid of seeing truths like that, some part of you is flinching right now.  And for that part of yourself to know to flinch, it must already know what you'd deduce if you let yourself look."

"That's why I was able to know immediately what the real truth of the matter was, as soon as I stopped not looking there.  My mind had already calculated it."

"And now that I've said that much to you, you will, inevitably, start to see it yourself at some point, which is why they picked a disposable Security officer for this interview instead of putting Abarco on it.  You're definitely going to need to flee Cheliax at some point.  That part is inevitable.  Part of you already knows that, which is why you can feel yourself flinching away from thinking of it right now."

"This would in fact be easier to explain if you'd tried to pick up the material on ilanism while it was being taught."

"You're coming at this from the wrong angle.  You have no idea what an ilani can deduce.  That thing Keltham does, that you should've been warned about by Asmodia, where you say something that sounds ordinary and innocent to you, and Keltham makes some far-reaching deduction using Laws you don't understand?"

"Not only can I do it too, now, but I realized that I'd been doing a lot of it already.  Asmodeans just train themselves not to know they're doing it, which is how I was able to know what I knew right away, without taking a lot of extra time to think."

"For example.  Among the military information you think I don't have - I'd ask how you think you even know what information I have, but you'd have to be an ilani to realize why 'how do I even know that' is an important question - is a conversation between Sevar and the Queen of Cheliax, back when the Queen and the Most High were taking tea with the rest of us, a couple of days after Keltham made his hiring decisions.  Asmodia asked if she could have female wizard students from outside Cheliax to examine, kidnapped ones.  Sevar mentioned that Felandriel Morgethai's university was the reason we don't own Andoran, and that the Magesterium in Absalom is the reason nobody's ever conquered it."

"You aren't allowed to think about what that implies about the relative military strength of Cheliax."

"Or rather, you're not allowed to think of it in words.  A part of yourself that you can't see, but an ilani can, reads ahead to what the results would be if you did think about it, and it warns off the part of yourself exposed to Detect Thoughts from thinking anything that sounds disloyal.  But that part of you has to know what you would deduce to warn you off from that."

"If I say, now, that all the students at Morgethai's university and Absolom's Magesterium will have a far easier time of picking up everything Keltham's trying to teach, because they're not afraid of seeing truths like that, some part of you is flinching right now.  And for that part of yourself to know to flinch, it must already know what you'd deduce if you let yourself look."

"That's why I was able to know immediately what the real truth of the matter was, as soon as I stopped not looking there.  My mind had already calculated it."

"And now that I've said that much to you, you will, inevitably, start to see it yourself at some point, which is why they picked a disposable low-ranking Security officer for this interview instead of putting Abarco on it.  You're definitely going to need to flee Cheliax at some point.  That part is inevitable.  Part of you already knows that, which is why you can feel yourself flinching away from thinking of it right now."

"This would in fact be easier to explain if you'd tried to pick up the material on ilanism while it was being taught."

"You're coming at this from the wrong angle.  You have no idea what an ilani can deduce.  That thing Keltham does, that you should've been warned about by Asmodia, where you say something that sounds ordinary and innocent to you, and Keltham makes some far-reaching deduction using Laws you don't understand?"

"Not only can I do it too, now, but I realized that I'd been doing a lot of it already.  Asmodeans just train themselves not to know they're doing it, which is how I was able to know what I knew right away, without taking a lot of extra time to think."

"For example.  Among the military information you think I don't have - I'd ask how you think you even know what information I have, but you'd have to be an ilani to realize why 'how do I even know that' is an important question - is a conversation between Sevar and the Queen of Cheliax, back when the Queen and the Most High were taking tea with the rest of us, a couple of days after Keltham made his hiring decisions.  Asmodia asked if she could have female wizard students from outside Cheliax to examine, kidnapped ones.  Sevar mentioned that Felandriel Morgethai's university was the reason we don't own Andoran, and that the Magesterium in Absalom is the reason nobody's ever conquered it."

"You aren't allowed to think about what that implies about the relative military strength of Cheliax."

"Or rather, you're not allowed to think of it in words.  A part of yourself that you can't see, but an ilani can, reads ahead to what the results would be if you did think about it, and it warns off the part of yourself exposed to Detect Thoughts from thinking anything that sounds disloyal.  But that part of you has to know what you would deduce to warn you off from that."

"If I say, now, that all the students at Morgethai's university and Absalom's Magesterium will have a far easier time of picking up everything Keltham's trying to teach, because they're not afraid of seeing truths like that, some part of you is flinching right now.  And for that part of yourself to know to flinch, it must already know what you'd deduce if you let yourself look."

"That's why I was able to know immediately what the real truth of the matter was, as soon as I stopped not looking there.  My mind had already calculated it."

"And now that I've said that much to you, you will, inevitably, start to see it yourself at some point, which is why they picked a disposable low-ranking Security officer for this interview instead of putting Abarco on it.  You're definitely going to need to flee Cheliax at some point.  That part is inevitable.  Part of you already knows that, which is why you can feel yourself flinching away from thinking of it right now."